Once completed, the facility will offer a 24-hour emergency service with triage rooms, a triage waiting area, a new ambulance canopy, a new outpatient department, staff areas, and stores. The entrance, parking areas, sidewalks and external public spaces of the hospital will also be upgraded, and a covered walkway will be extended so that it reaches the main hospital entrance.

The project makes use of labour-intensive methods that provide a limited number of short-term work opportunities and skills training for local people. A total of R2,4 million has been spent on targeted enterprises so far, and R763 222 on local labour from the Stellenbosch municipal area. In addition, 12 local people are benefiting from skills training opportunities such as basic firefighting, scaffolding, and occupational health and safety.

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